Yesterday was Google's 8th birthday. Hard to believe it's already been 8 years! I remember first using Google, "this weird new search engine," as a freshman in college. It was brand new, and yet somehow it was, from the get-go, way better than Yahoo or anything else that was around at the time. It quickly became - among my group of friends, anyway - the default college student research portal.The BackRub* web site has some archives of the original Google; fortunately I don't remember it looking like that. (I was going to say, "I don't remember it looking so 1996" - and then I realized that wouldn't be much of an insult, since the year was, in fact, 1998.) By the time I started using Google in late '98, it had the familiar, simplistic design it still sports today. (Or, at least, something very similar.) There's something to be said for simplicity and consistency.
And now, in 2006? Google is practically poised to take over the world. It's crazy how much can change in less than a decade.
* Trivia: did you know BackRub was the original name of Google?
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9-28-2006 @ 1:56PM
ben said...
According to McAfee SiteAdvisor(a firefox extension), it says that "backrub.com" is a "red" site. During their tests, they found backrub.com to make unauthorized changes to their PC. Please don't link to this website, or atleast warn them before they click on it.
Just trying to help
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9-29-2006 @ 10:38AM
ben said...
hey that website you linked to when you wrote "the original google" is on mcaffe siteadvisor's bad list http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/tjtech.org?ref=safe&aff_id=0
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